[karatekungfuchicken]

recieving [Error] invalid operands of types 'double' and 'int' to binary 'operator^'

for the following code

all variables are declared as doubles.

yVertex = (aCoeff * xVertex ^ 2) + (bCoeff * xVertex) + cCoeff;

Are there any specific rules for using '^'???

[jimblumberg]

Do you know that the operator^ is the exclusive or operator, not the exponentiation operator? For your example I recommend just using multiplication ( X * X ).

Jim

[jjl]

Bit wise operators, like xor (^), are meant for integers types. Using them for floating point variables doesn't make sense because they contain three different sections in their binary representation.

[Coding Mash]

(^) is Exclusive OR (XOR) operator.
If you want to take power of something, make use of power function in math library.

#include<math.h>
int a = 4 ;
cout << pow(a, 2) ;

It would print 16, 4 * 4.